There were not a lot of firms we found who were in a position to undertake such a large initiative – training more than 200 people within a couple of months

My colleague Eric Spink, vice-chair of the Alberta Securities Commission and a long-time champion provided a preliminary list of possible firms

Chose Wordsmith because of solid track record – 22 years in the business of educating business about plain language – and their quick understanding of our issues and goals

Many of the course materials and approaches already developed previously and were easily adapted to BCSC’s circumstances. About 40 of our 220 staff are lawyers and we used Christine’s existing course – Improving Legal Writing – to train them. For the remainder of staff, we used Christine’s equally effective but more general course.